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Lay persons' perceptions of intelligence : students' estimates of their own and their parents' overall and multiple intelligences.
(2013)Intelligence as a psychological construct has received vast attention from professionals and lay persons. The theory of multiple intelligences as a perspective of understanding intelligence has enjoyed extensive research. ... -
Leadership in the Southern African business context : towards an appropriate approach.
(2007)Enormous challenges face the African continent's quest to fulfil her great potential. The success of the African wealth creation project depends to a great extent on the quality of leadership driving this vital undertaking. ... -
Learning and development : an investigation of a neo-Piagetian theory of cognitive growth.
(1985)Within the framework of Pascual-Leone's Theory of Constructive Operators (TCO), 252 Zulu-speaking children in the 7-8 , 9-10 and 11-12 age-groups were tested four times on the FIT RAC 794, a measure of mental capacity or ... -
Learning during turbulent times: an exploration of high academic achievement in undergraduate students during protest action at UKZN.
(2019)#FeesMustFall: the nation-wide movement that spread across South African institutions of higher education, and resulted in what seemed to be an abnormal and turbulent learning environment. It is remarkable that in such ... -
Let's talk about it : an investigation of communicative parameters in sexuality discourse.
(2006)This study investigated communicative parameters in parent-adolescent and peer discussions about sex. While most sexual health interventions rely on communication and the dissemination of information, little research has ... -
Let's talk about sex : "a qualitative investigation into obstacles experienced by trainee psychologists assessing sexual history of a client during the first interview".
(2014)Despite adequate training and sound theoretical knowledge a trainee psychologist faces challenges whilst attempting to gather a vast amount of information from a new client. Sexual health information, although required for ... -
“Let’s talk about sex baby” - A comparative study of parents’ perceptions of parent-child sexuality communication with their adolescent children in rural and urban settings in eThekwini Municipality, KwaZulu-Natal.
(2017)In South Africa, the teenage pregnancy prevalence rate stands at 47 births per 1000 girls per annum for girls aged between 15 and 19 years, as opposed to 15 per 1000 girls in the United Kingdom (UK), and 24 per 1000 girls ... -
Liberated through submission? The Worthy Woman's Conference as a case study of Formenism.
(Indiana University Press, 2010)In this article, Nadar and Potgieter use the Worthy Women’s Conference as a case study, describing and analyzing how this movement creates and maintains what they call the formenist position. Formenism, like masculinism, ... -
The life experiences of adolescent sexual offenders : factors within the family that contribute to offending behaviours.
(2002)This study was conceptualised to explore the life experiences of adolescent sex offenders with the aim of obtaining insight into factors that contributed to their sexually offensive behaviour, especially those factors ... -
The life experiences of children orphaned on account of HIV and AIDS.
(2009)The goal of this study was to explore the experiences of children who were orphaned on account of HIV and AIDS as well as the experiences of their caregivers, thereby improving the knowledge base of practitioners working ... -
Life experiences of unemployed professional refugee women from Rwanda who live in the Durban inner city : working their way out of the vortex.
(2009)Refugees abound the world over due to various factors, such as human rights violations, wars, ethnicity-related problems, political instability and so on. In South Africa, refugees have a high rate of unemployment and no ... -
The life scripts and object relations of adolescents in families and in residential substitute care.
(1988)The aim of this research was to compare the quality of parent- child relationships and child development in a group of 20 adolescents (aged 13-17) who were raised in intact families of origin (Family Group: N1 = 20, x ... -
The link between racial prejudice and racial policy attitudes : a meta-analytic study.
(2006)This meta-analytic study analyses the relationship between racial prejudice and racial policy attitudes. Specifically, it examines the effects of race attitudes (i.e., symbolic racism, oldfashioned racism, racial affect ... -
The literacy of tracking : a comparative analysis of tracking within two Bushman post-hunter communities.
(2010)Vast advances in technology have presented a platform for mediated forms to reach places where it was never before thought possible. Once remote communities can now be more easily accessed and in turn have easier access ... -
The lived experience of forgiveness/unforgiveness in victims of violent crime : an empirical phenomenological study.
(2010)The aim of this study was to investigate the lived experience of forgiveness or unforgiveness in individuals who had been victims of violent crime. 6 participants who had experienced violent crime underwent an in-depth ... -
The lived experiences of Zimbabwean migrants raising children under conditions of irregularity in South Africa.
(2018)This study explored the lived experiences of Zimbabwean migrants parenting under conditions of irregularity in South Africa and the role of social work in the lives of irregular migrant parents. The concerns that prompted ... -
Living in a children's home and living in foster care : hearing the voices of children and their caregivers.
(2007)Legislation in South Africa pertaining to the care and protection of children is presently being revised and changed. Should alternative care be necessary for a vulnerable child, the Children's Act 38/2005 prioritises a ... -
Living with xenophobia : understanding the lived experiences of Burundian and Rwandese refugees in Durban (South Africa).
(2013)The main purpose of the study described in this report was to better understand the lived experiences of refugees from Burundi and Rwanda living in the inner city of Durban and facing xenophobia. This study was motivated ... -
The local knowledge of transactional sex in a sample of tertiary education students in KwaZulu-Natal.
(2020)Background: Transactional sex has been cited in considerable public health literature in terms of its critical role in HIV and STI transmission (Stoebenau et al., 2011). Much of this literature has focused on women’s ... -
Locus of control and schizophrenic adjustment : a dimensional analysis.
(1980)The literature indicates that: (i) locus of control is a multi-factorial construct; and (ii) psychological maladjustment is associated with a generalised perception that reinforcements are not personally controlled. ...